This is my all-time favorite card design. Maybe it’s my favorite design, ever. I’ve devised a number of gallery exhibition announcements over the years and I’ve always been determined to subvert the standard format. That plan is: full bleed color photograph of an artwork on the front, show information set in Helvetica on the back. …

“Most of you won’t like this, and I don’t blame you at all. It’s not meant for you.” —Lou Reed, original liner notes to Metal Machine Music (The Amine β Ring) (RCA, 1975) ♭♭ For Barney Bubbles, ersatz is as real as fake gets. Due to his myriad puzzles and conundrums, it’s tempting to look …

I’m involved in two aspects of the upcoming Walking Backwards exhibition of the work of designer Vaughan Oliver. First, I’ve written “Beauty:Entropy,” the essay for an accompanying booklet. I’ll also be discussing Oliver’s work as part of a panel, “Elevating the Banal: Perspectives on the Work of Vaughan Oliver,” co-sponsored by AIGA Boston and Lesley …

A video of my presentation “Singing the Surface,” is available at the VCFA MFA in Graphic Design YouTube channel. The talk was part of my 2016 visit as guest critic, lecturer and workshop leader for the April residency, and had been previously given at Kookmin University in Seoul, and Phoenix Design Week. An adaptation (with …